What to store on HDD's?

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So, while browsing this forum, and thinking about upgrading the drive in the second rig in sig, it occurred to me: it's practically empty.

So, a question to the people with the big HDD setups: What do you store on the drives?
 
Anime, TV shows, online web series, and ripped DVDs are what I store on my drives. Oh and of course, pron :D
 
i dont really have THAT much hard drive space... only 880g.. but ive got 40gigs of pics (no pr0n) 120g of music... about 150g of tv shows 50-60g of movies. I rip all my games, so, i have game .iso's. I also edit/store video for my parents school and my friends church, so i have maybe.. 200+ gigs of raw 10mp video... and then, countless apps...
 
I also rip and store game iso's on my drives, but my biggest stoarage spot is for the HTPC where I rip all the movies to the drives (straight to an iso minus the extra crap with CloneDVD2 - no recompression to any other format). 3+ TB, soon to be 5.
 
The big items for me is all video - a little over 1TB of TV shows and movies - I'm the sort of person that will rewatch TV episodes or movies I like over and over, which fuels some digital pack-ratting. However I keep it all on a central server, in addition to backups of my important documents, and music (10-15 gigs, pretty insignificant amount compared to the video). I've had this as a NAS setup for the last year and change, and it's great, since it cuts down greatly the amount of local storage I need on my machines. I just need enough for OS, apps & games, a local copy of my music, and whatever documents I have (largely school related, but takes up virtually nothing space wise). After that, as long as I have 20-30 GB overhead for when I want to rip a few DVDs, or want to load some movies onto my laptop for trips, I don't need much else. Which IMO is great, since when I think about getting a new box, I don't have to worry about getting the best $/GB, I can just get a small but fast drive (150GB VelociRaptor's looking pretty good at the moment) - which wouldn't be the case if I didn't have decentralized mass storage.
 
Like everyone else, I have a bunch of TV shows and movies. Except, I never seem to get round to watching any of it. In between a 12 hour job and other miscellany that makes up real life, I can never find a 2 hour slot free to watch a movie.

Do you guys actually watch all the stuff you have on your hard disks? Cause I've watched like perhaps 10% of mine
 
elleana said:
Like everyone else, I have a bunch of TV shows and movies. Except, I never seem to get round to watching any of it. In between a 12 hour job and other miscellany that makes up real life, I can never find a 2 hour slot free to watch a movie.

Do you guys actually watch all the stuff you have on your hard disks? Cause I've watched like perhaps 10% of mine
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Sounds all two familiar. I have about 130gb of movies ripped to the hdd that I've yet to watch. It all boils down to that situation of "Oh that looked like a good movie, lets pick it up"...get home, rip it to the drive and put the original in a box. Then down the road a new movie comes out we want to see, and it's the same thing all over again. We've watched more than 10%...but that percentage watched keeps shrinking :(
 
"Hm, this TV show sounds interesting. Let me set my HTPC to record it every week, and I'll watch it when I have the time."

Except, 'when I have the time' is a total misnomer.
 
about 300+ gigs of music, about 450gigs of movies, about 80 gigs of apps and misc..oh and about 200gigs of porn. heh
 
1.2 TB total (1 x 750, 1 x 320, 1 x 300). 27GB pictures. 105GBmusic. 32GB software. 130GB video. 35GB pron.
 
HD movies, crap load of musics, comics, photos, porn, softwares, games.
 
All on my server:
121 GB of iso's, random files, setup files
356MB of Pictures (no pr0n)
168GB of movies and tv shows
6.29GB of music all in mp3
465MB of moms documents (pictures, music, junk)
8.15GB of podcast and more downloading atm
 
the only reason to have a big hdd is for video or maybe a large database or perhaps large photoshop or cad files

even if you use your hdd to backup software installers and patches or sp's video will trump all in terms of size (over music, photos, backups).

some people don't just have a big hdd for tv or dvd rips some have it for video editing purposes.

of course corporate situations are different in terms of use
 
I put a sausage in my DVD player so all my movies are stored on HDDs. I like Maxtor.
 
I suggest storing 1s and 0s in whatever order you choose. You can TRY 2s, but most drives don't like them. 3s are right out, along with any negative numbers.

Seriously though, store whatever you want, its your space.
 
8s work well too, since they're nice and rounded they fit in the slots for 0s well. Some of the chubbier ones have to be pushed in though, which can increase access times.
 
I have a question for all you guys who have tons of stuff on hard drives (as I do), do you have a backup of all this stuff as well? The way I do it is if I buy a 500GB hard drive, I'll pick up a second one just to backup the first one on. It feels retarded doing things this way (and expensive). I would hate to lose like 300GB of movies in one shot.
 
The way I do it is if I buy a 500GB hard drive, I'll pick up a second one just to backup the first one on. It feels retarded doing things this way (and expensive). I would hate to lose like 300GB of movies in one shot.
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If im putting movies etc then yes i will buy a second drive, the price for say another 500GB versus the time/effort in ripping/encoding/downloading said content makes it a no brainer for me.

DVD's have become next to useless for backing up content like this as it would drive me insane trying to backup over 100DVD-R's and Blurays are just too expensive right now.
 
AVT said:
So, a question to the people with the big HDD setups: What do you store on the drives?
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I'm downloading the internet. All of it.


But really, I have a couple of tuners and I record TV shows. I've ripped some of my favorite movies to my server, ripped all my audio CD's, and my wife is a photographer so she has a shit ton of photos - most are larger in .raw and .nef formats in addition to .jpg, so they take a bunch of space. One photo can take up 10mb.
 
solomone12 said:
I have a question for all you guys who have tons of stuff on hard drives (as I do), do you have a backup of all this stuff as well?
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As far as optical goes like dvds the optical is the backup. It does not take that long to rip a dvd. With documents and other irreplaceable data backup is necessary.
 
Code: 
[root@fileserver ~]# tw_cli info c0

Unit  UnitType  Status         %RCmpl  %V/I/M  Stripe  Size(GB)  Cache  AVrfy
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
u0    RAID-5    OK             -       -       256K    6519.19   ON     OFF    

Port   Status           Unit   Size        Blocks        Serial
---------------------------------------------------------------
p0     OK               u0     931.51 GB   1953525168    WD-WCXXXXXXXXXX     
p1     OK               u0     931.51 GB   1953525168    WD-WCXXXXXXXXXX     
p2     OK               u0     931.51 GB   1953525168    WD-WCXXXXXXXXXX     
p3     OK               u0     931.51 GB   1953525168    WD-WCXXXXXXXXXX     
p4     OK               u0     931.51 GB   1953525168    WD-WCXXXXXXXXXX     
p5     OK               u0     931.51 GB   1953525168    WD-WCXXXXXXXXXX     
p6     OK               u0     931.51 GB   1953525168    WD-WCXXXXXXXXXX     
p7     OK               u0     931.51 GB   1953525168    WD-WCXXXXXXXXXX

Code: 
[root@fileserver array]# du -sh *
29G     anime
5.6G    apps
665G    audio
24K     bonnie
7.4G    books
82G	games
231G	hd_rips
7.4G	linux_iso
16K	lost+found
918M	misc
855G	movies
64G	music-dvds
853G	tv

The folders are pretty self-explanatory. Note that there is no pr0n in any of that.

As far as backups go, I don't have much on there that is all that important. I have all my music on my Windows PC and back that up to my file server. My Documents on my Windows PC is also backed up to my file server. That's about the extent of anything I back up. I can always re-rip most of my stuff...

Rombus said:
I suggest storing 1s and 0s in whatever order you choose. You can TRY 2s, but most drives don't like them. 3s are right out, along with any negative numbers
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The majority of hard drive space here is filled up with movies

3x750GB + 1x 200GB = ~2.4TB filled with movies & TV shows.
1x 160GB is for music storage and file sharing between computers
1x 300GB is for backing up data.

As far as backing up goes, there is the 300GB drive which holds nightly backups for the multiple computers in the house (as well as the music). This hard drive is uploaded to Mozy for an offsite backup. The only backup of the movies and TV shows is the original DVDs. There's no way I'm waiting for 2TB to upload to the interwebs. ;)
 
I just took my server to a buddies LAN. He hooked up a fresh 500GB drive to his rig and I joked that my movies (HD) and TV directories were EACH larger than his new drive. :)
 
Wow! I just realized that I have 1.16TB, 300GB videars, and 200GB asst. crap [including music]

I need moar data to fill my drives to make an excuse to buy more! :p
 
2770GB advertised space including an external, 800GB+ free still, I mainly store ISOs (applications/games) since I hate putting disks in drives. I also have some 310 movies ripped (on a 1000GB external so I can bring them home and watch them on my laptop), and about 200GB of HD movies. No pr0n. 5GB pictures (again no X-rated), 25GB iTunes library (includes some movies for my iPod classic). Also backups. Lots of backups. Backups of backups. After you do a midnight format of your class notes with Darik's Boot and Nuke, you become slightly paranoid.

Storage System
1x150GB Raptor 10k (no window)
2x750GB WD Caviar AAKS (no RAID)
1x120GB WD Caviar Parellel ATA (hey it was free!)
1x1000GB Cavalry External (USB)
 
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